Honorlock incident

AWS Service Outage - Reopened

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Honorlock experienced a notice incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Canvas Proctoring and Blackboard Proctoring and 1 more component, lasting 8h 25m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 08:40 PM UTC
Duration
8h 25m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

Affected components

Canvas ProctoringBlackboard ProctoringD2L ProctoringAleks ProctoringHonorlock ApplicationThird-party Platform Proctoring

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

    AWS service outage: Sporadic issues regarding launching and starting exams are still ongoing. AWS has made several improvements and are working through processing the backlog of SQS messages in Lambda queues.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 01:16 PM UTC

    AWS has reported progress being made on restoring services in the US-EAST-1 Region

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 03:29 PM UTC

    Additional improvements have been made, the AWS team continue to investigate and restore services.

  4. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC

    AWS is applying mitigations to the remaining Availability Zones at which point they expect launch errors and network connectivity issues to subside.

  5. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 08:40 PM UTC

    Honorlock Services are fully operational, and we will continue to monitor the situation until AWS services are fully restored.